Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-03-04

ret Tito my vawl ana go hrhotc, y, 40
Cod. take nv life, take my MI, 10 my keep
ingI he thou my guide; be Thou my pilot,
Ne 90 along for a little while, ana suuueni
wake up. and say. VIKINGS are all goinis
wrong o, Lord, we are driving on tnes'
rocks. and Thou art going to let us pc sup
wracked i God saws: ''You so and rest
will take charge Of this vessel ana take y 'Ae
the harbor."
MADE FOOLS BY PERSONALITIES.
II ia Gods business TO comfort, and IL y
our business to be comforted. heIpers ~,
great thinker philosophical about himseii
nhiosophized about this world, philosophizes
about everything, then in his dying moment
asked that only one word might be cut upo,
his tombstone, and that word 'lnieiiclssnnus
most unhappy-d descriptive OF the state OF IN
lives and of the deaths OF those VINO take .neN
case out of the hand of God The only appr0,
pirate inscription for their banqueting nan
and their equipage, and their grave; ana IN
wall of their eternal prison house-'1nleiiclssi
mus In drooling, moral idiocy, tney mr.
scrabbllng at the door OF their happiness
which never opens. lnlserably Playing tne i1 ~
Again: remark that all those persons pa.
the fool, as certainly did this man OF the text
who allow the technicalties OF religion 10 stol
their salvation. David was wise about grea
many things but his cuttings-up in the tex
for a little while eclipsed his character. Ane
know wise men and great men, competen
-,
and foolish part in regard to the technlcah
ties of religion. They ask us some question:
which we can not answer categoricaliy, ana s.
they burst into broad guffaw, as though IL
of and more interest to us than 1t ought 70 %
to them. About the atonement about God's
DEGREES, about mans destiny, they ask greal
many questions which we can not answer ane
so they deride us, as though we could not ash
them thousand questions that they can no
answer about their eyes, about tneir ears
about their finger nails about everything.
fool can ask a question that wise man cal
not answer. U, you caviling men! y, yot
profound men! o, you learned men, do please
admit something. You have souli Yes
Will 1t live forevers Yes. Where? You say
that Jesus Christ is not a Divine Saviour
Who Is Hea Where will you 90 after you leave
your law books, and your medical prescrip
lions and your club-room and your newspaper
office--where will you 60 to! Your body VIII
be six feet under ground. Where will yonl
soul bel The black coat will be oil, the
shroud on. Those spectacles will be removed
from your vision, for the sod will press youi
eyelids.
ASKING NoNsENsIcAL QUESTIONS.
Have you any idea that an earthly almanac
describes the years of your lifetimes OF wha
stuff shall gather the material for the letters
of that word which describes your eternai
home! Shall it be iron chain or arnaranthine
garlandl The air that stirs the besweated
garden or desert! 0, quit the puzzline
questions and try these monlentous questions.
Quit the small questions and try these great
questions. Instead of discussing whether the
serpent in Eden was fgurative or literal,
whether the Mediterranean fish did or did not
swallow the recreant prophet whether this
and that and the other thing is right Of
wrong. come and discuss one question: SLOW
shall | get rid of my sins aud win heaven"'
That is the question for you. Yea, there
have been men who have actually lost then
souls because they thought there WAS dis
crepancy between Moses and Prof Sillman-
because they could not understand how there
could be light before the sun rose-the light
appearing in verse of Genesis and the SUI
appearing not until verse l6-and because
they do not know how the moon could stand
still without upsettiug the universe, and be.
cause they had decided upon the theory OF
natural selection. A German philosopher in
dying had for his chief sorrow that he had
not devoted his whole life to the study of the
dative case. 0, when your immortality is III
peril. why quibbe. Quit these non-essentials,
my dear brother In the name of God | ask
you in regard to these matters of the immortal
soul that you do not play the fool.
CAvILING AT MINOR POINTS.
What is that man doing over in Bowling
Green, New York! Well he is going in fol
a ticket for a Transatlantic voyage. He is
quarreling with the clerk about the spots
the red spots on the ticket-and he is quar-.
reling about the peculiar signature of the
president of the steamship company, and he
Is Quarreling about the manner of the clerk
who hands him the ticket. How long has he
been standing therei Three weeks. Mean
while, perhaps, Twenty-Five steamers have
gone out of port and hear the shrek of the
steamtug that could take him to the last
vessel that could bear him TO his engagement
in London. Still he stands in Bowling Green
discussing the ticket. What do you say in
regard to that man2 You say he is fool
Well, in that very way are many men setting
in regard to the matters OF the soul. They
are caviiling about the atonement, the rec
spots on the ticket about the character o.
the minister who hands them the ticket
about whether it has a divine or human sig
nature, and meanwhile all their opporiunite,
for heaven are sailing out oil the harbor, and
hear the last tap of the bell announcing the
last chance for heaven. Go aboarl Do not
waste any more time higgling and carping
and criticising, and wondering and, in tn,
presence of an astounded heaven, playing the
fool.
go still further and say to YOU that thos,
men play the fool who undertake, to pay ou
eternity for time. How little care do we be
stow upon the railroad depot where we stoI
twenty minutes to dine. We dash in and WI
dash ont again. We do not examine the archi
lecture OF the building, nor the face of the
caterer. We supply our hunger. we pay on
money, and we put on our hat and take on
place on the train. What is that depot al
compared with the place for which we ar
bounds Now, my friends, this world ia onl'
a stopping place on the way to momentum
destination, and yet how many of us sit down
as though we had consummatcd our Journey
as though we had come to our final depot
when our stopping here is as compared will
our stopping there is twenty minutes t,
twelve hours-yea as the one-hundredth par
of second compared with tell thousand years
MAKING WORTHLESS CHOICE.
Would Spain sell us Cuba for bushel O
wheats Would England sell us India for
ton of coals Would Venice sell us all err pic
lures for an American school boys sketch
| An! That would he better bargain for Eng
land, Spain and Venice than that man make
who gives his eternity for time. Yet hoy
| many there are who are saving to-day: 'Giy
me the WORLDS dollars and you may have tn
| eternal rewards. Give me the worlds ar
plause and you may have the garlands Of God
| Give me twenty, or forty, or sixty years O
worldly successes and | don't care what be
comes of the future l am going into tina
world uninsured. | take the responsibility
| Don't bother me about your religion. Here
have the two worlds before me, this one an
| the next. have chosen this. Go away fror
me, God and angels, and all thoughts of tn
/ futurer'
But where is Crnsus and Cleopatra. an
| Atsopas, who had one dish of fool that cos
| 81, 10000; and Lentuus. who had Il pond O
fish worth 1900; and Scaurus,. who bough
country seat for 500 100 and Tberin.
who left at death a for uue Of SllS. 12O OOO
| Where are theyi If windy dav should bio,
all the dust that is left of them into your eve,
| 1t would not make YOU wink twlcel All m
friends, then very certainly your comforts ,
! surrounding can not keep back the old archer
| You can not charm him with music or dazzl
| him with plate or decoy him with pictures, {
bride him with your money.